[PATCH V4 1/3] sched/deadline: Replenishment timer should fire in the next period

[Daniel Bristot de Oliveira]

Currently, the replenishment timer is set to fire at the deadline
of a task. Although that works for implicit deadline tasks because the
deadline is equals to the begin of the next period, that is not correct
for constrained deadline tasks (deadline < period).

For instance:

f.c:
 --------------- %< ---------------
int main (void)
{
	for(;;);
}
 --------------- >% ---------------

  # gcc -o f f.c

  # trace-cmd record -e sched:sched_switch                              \
   				   -e syscalls:sys_exit_sched_setattr   \
   chrt -d --sched-runtime  490000000 					\
           --sched-deadline 500000000 					\
	   --sched-period  1000000000 0 ./f

  # trace-cmd report | grep "{pid of ./f}"

After setting parameters, the task is replenished and continue running
until being throttled.
         f-11295 [003] 13322.113776: sys_exit_sched_setattr: 0x0

The task is throttled after running 492318 ms, as expected.
         f-11295 [003] 13322.606094: sched_switch:   f:11295 [-1] R ==> \
						   watchdog/3:32 [0]

But then, the task is replenished 500719 ms after the first
replenishment:
    <idle>-0     [003] 13322.614495: sched_switch:   swapper/3:0 [120] R \
						   ==> f:11295 [-1]

Running for 490277 ms:
         f-11295 [003] 13323.104772: sched_switch:   f:11295 [-1] R ==>  \
						   swapper/3:0 [120]

Hence, in the first period, the task runs 2 * runtime, and that is a bug.

During the first replenishment, the next deadline is set one period away.
So the runtime / period starts to be respected. However, as the second
replenishment took place in the wrong instant, the next replenishment
will also be held in a wrong instant of time. Rather than occurring in
the nth period away from the first activation, it is taking place
in the (nth period - relative deadline).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Romulo Silva de Oliveira <romulo.deoliveira@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 kernel/sched/deadline.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
index 27737f3..3e3caae 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
@@ -505,10 +505,15 @@ static void update_dl_entity(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se,
 	}
 }
 
+static inline u64 dl_next_period(struct sched_dl_entity *dl_se)
+{
+	return dl_se->deadline - dl_se->dl_deadline + dl_se->dl_period;
+}
+
 /*
  * If the entity depleted all its runtime, and if we want it to sleep
  * while waiting for some new execution time to become available, we
- * set the bandwidth enforcement timer to the replenishment instant
+ * set the bandwidth replenishment timer to the replenishment instant
  * and try to activate it.
  *
  * Notice that it is important for the caller to know if the timer
@@ -530,7 +535,7 @@ static int start_dl_timer(struct task_struct *p)
 	 * that it is actually coming from rq->clock and not from
 	 * hrtimer's time base reading.
 	 */
-	act = ns_to_ktime(dl_se->deadline);
+	act = ns_to_ktime(dl_next_period(dl_se));
 	now = hrtimer_cb_get_time(timer);
 	delta = ktime_to_ns(now) - rq_clock(rq);
 	act = ktime_add_ns(act, delta);
-- 
2.9.3